So I thought I would do a con report for my most recent con and update you on cosplay plans for the future.
Youmacon 2009: First of let me say Youmacon is a great con and anyone who can make it out there should, last year was fun but a little lacking in the One Piece department.
Now you all have to keep in mind that even though I go to anime conventions I am not typically the sort of person that goes to panels, so I can't tell you how great the panels were, or how great this and that was.
I go, I see friends, I cosplay, I participate in masquarades, and occaisonally I get a little inhebriated.
That was youmacon in a nutshell. But I love arlong park so I'll give you more than the shell.
Youmacon was crazy I had 5 costumes with me and I wore all of them ( Sanji (ST battledamage, Sanji Gentlecook, Spike, Junpei, and Ryohei)
Oh well I wore Junpei anyways and hung out with my cousin Ami (Aeigs) as she registered.
Next was where youmacon got crazy for me.
The night before the con my friend Alex and Kale forced me to re-edit the skit I had written, directed, and recoreded myself. Telling me in essence "screw the rules, I've got money" or that I'm an abbrasive Russian bastard who gets everything I want. So me, a bottle of Captain Morgan ( cause thats how we Pirates do it), and my laptop got to work
Firday rolls around and its busy.
Junpei was worn first. (Junpei pic in first post) I love the shin megami tensei series Persona being my favorite (although it can be argued that SMT was just slapped on persona) My friend richie (AZN Luffy in my pics) and I run "The Velvet Room: A persona panel" Panel at several conventions, however at youmacon some ponce decided to take it upon themselves to beat us to the punch and use our name (we literally have one of the most successful panels out there at Acen last year they had too give us a secondary seperate panel for the people who couldnt fit into the first one we went from a 50 person panel to a 300 person one) so we were a little irked that someone wanted to steal our proverbial thunder.
THIS YEAR HOLY SHIT WAS THE SHOOT ROCKIN!
The One Piece gathering blew me away, 2 Bon chans, 2 Brooks, 2 Ace, Smoker, Luffys galore, varied win and fail Sanjis, Mostly win and some fail Nami's. All in all great meet up. (I'm not going to spam photos because I know Youmacon has its own dedicated thread created by my beloved darling cactusmomma)
but this picture pretty much sums up the entire meet up
Immediatley after the One Piece shoot I had to meet in Con Ops too present our skit to the judges (so they could check that it was family friendly ect ect)
Normally this would be okay. This time we had to run grab my laptop, only to turn it on and find out it was dead, and then have to grab the charger to plug it in, play the audio and act it out. To make matters worse, when I originally mixed said skit, it was under the 3:00 mark which was rule abiding for the amount of people in our group, when I remixed it Alex had told me too "screw the rules" as I mentioned earlier. So when the told us it wasn't okay Alex flipped out and said something along the lines of "ENFFFF BUT STRRRRIPPPUR VAAASHHH DID A SEVEN MINUUUUTE SKEET WITH NOFFIN BUT VAWWWWLTZ LAST YUUUR" and they were like " Doesn't matter"
I stepped in a said, if it'll make this work, I can add myself as the narrator, and we will have a 5th person
They accepted it and we moved on to present it. They laughed, it was good.
Interesting side note, The main judge was dressed as Bonney during the time I was there.
So the judging ran late, and we had the Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Shoot to attend which started 10 minutes before out judging ended.
I sprint up stairs, burst into a random room, ask for a razor, razor is give, I shave.
I bleed, It hurts, I morn the loss of my goatee but it needed to be done.
I spike up and spray my hair, get my suit on gank a soda from the room and I'm ready to bolt.
I bolt, running faster than I ever have in my life. Jump kick open the doors to the pool area
and I shout
"KYYYYYYYYYYYYOKUGEN!"
I then run up to the center stage (next to my friend Rob who is cosplaying non tyl Ryhoei)
Crush the half full can of soda in my hand (still whalst screaming, but this time EXXXTREEME)
I'm classy.
Saturday came and went to fast, but boy was I excited, New costume awesome make up job.
SPPPIIIKE ( I'm a whedon tard give me a break)
Eventually after being a rude british vampire and running outside covered in blanket to smoke, it was time to get on stage and do our number.
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We actually won a judges choice award.
I'll gladly take opinons and advice.
so overall it was a great con, fun was had times were shared, I met new people, and got to be a drunk british blood sucker.
also this….
Cactusmomma broke me.